Whether unconventional leaders have been good or bad for their countries is debatable, but they definitely change the course ...

Another arc near the edge of the disc may have represented a boat — maybe a "sun boat" like the "solar barque" in the ancient Egyptian religion — or a sickle, which may indicate that the disc ...

Syrian fighters rest in the ancient city of Palmyra ... the last coachload of tourists trundled through the desert from Damascus, 150 miles to the southwest, Palmyra has been a place of ...

With Assad and his Russian backers gone, people of Palmyra fear the return of terrorists who forced them to watch beheadings ...

With Assad and his Russian backers gone, people of Palmyra fear the return of terrorists who forced them to watch beheadings Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra ...

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The tragedy of the modern Middle East is that the Ottoman Empire, while it lasted, solved a problem that would bedevil the ...

UNESCO recognised Japan's ancient process of sake brewing as an ... with many having relocated to Damascus or neighbouring Turkey. Two other highlights from the Paraguay session included "naïve ...

It’s the railway line, which once connected Damascus to Medina until it was ... as the underground springs provide refuge for ancient explorers and howling ghosts, of sunburnt pilgrims and ...

The instant collapse of Assad’s rule will reshape the geopolitics of the Mideast for years to come. Within Syria itself, the challenge is how to replace the bloodthirsty past and current revolutionary ...